The Community Council has made a call for feedback on the Code of
Conduct v2, which will be discussed at their next meeting on October
4th, 2012. You can send feedback to czajkowski AT ubuntu DOT com to
get it added to the ideas wiki page.

* How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is
inserted? http://askubuntu.com/questions/192331/how-to-get-an-email-notification-when-a-usb-storage-device-is-inserted
* Should security updates always be installed?

George Chirstofis of the Greek Ubuntu community shares that they have
created an Ubuntu 12.10 countdown banner. Christofis gives detailed
instructions on how to download the banner, adjust it to your desired
language, and integrate it into a website.

Randall Ross shares Fast Edi!’s contributions of spreading the word to
his students about Ubuntu, and his translation of another Unity guide,
this time in German.

http://randall.executiv.es/unity_volle_kontrolle_erlangen

=== Washington DC: Sugar Labs DC Xubuntu Deployment ===

Jeffery Elkner of the Washington DC LoCo and SugarLabs DC shares an
article outlining the process he used to review and finally select
Xubuntu 12.04 with Sweets Distribution repositories and
“sweets-desktop” package for 30 laptops which will be used to start a
program for elementary students in Senegal.

Laura Czajkowski of Launchpad reports that Parallel Testing is
complete and that WebOps have finished parallel testing in buildbot.
Czajkowski points out that if some problems occur during the parallel
testing usage, people should visit following links for help:

Richard Harding of Launchpad informs us that “Launchpad has moved from
YUI 3.3.0 to 3.5.1 and is now served by the combo loader. This change
provides a faster experience for users along with easier maintenance
and new JavaScript library features for developers.”

Matthew Revell of Launchpad shares that “on the 5th of October they’ll
be ending their beta of Mercurial imports in Launchpad. On that day
existing Mercurial imports will cease and there won’t be any
possibility to create new ones.” However, Revell points out that “this
doesn’t affect Bazaar, Git, Subversion or CVS imports.” The reason for
Mercurial ending is because of low usage and low quality.

Jorge Castro discusses how Ubuntu’s cloud team, together with Summit
OSS maintainer Chris Johnston, hosted, deployed, and managed the Linux
plumbers conference schedule via juju.
Since Castro and his team are “generalizing this work into a more
generic Django charm,” anyone interested can contact Castro. Help is
not required just with Django but with “Pyramid, nodejs, Rails and
$your_favorite_web_platform” as well.

Victor Tuson Palau continues his blog series demonstrating how Ubuntu
is the best environment to write up “connected” or “cloud backend”
Android Apps using Juju with a blog post titled “How to test if it all
works in a production environment?”

http://victorpalau.net/2012/09/26/juju-adventure-live-testing/

== The Planet ==

=== Xubuntu: Offline documentation rewritten for 12.10 ===

The Xubuntu team announces that offline documentation has been
refreshed for the 12.10 cycle. Included among the changes are
restructured content, updated documentation to reflect new default
applications, and completely rewritten sections.

http://xubuntu.org/news/offline-documentation-rewritten-for-12-10/

=== Jono Bacon: More Information About Online Dash Search Privacy ===

Jono Bacon responds to some of the concerns about user privacy that
have arisen since the inclusion of the ability for the Dash to search
external sources for results. After speaking with John Lenton, Senior
Engineering Manager, Jono reassures users that no user-identifiable
data is retrieved during the search, and that Canonical does not
perform any kind of user tracking. They also touched upon concerns
about the searches being unencrypted, saying “we are currently working
to encrypt these dash searches ready for the release of this feature
in Ubuntu 12.10.”

In a later post, Bacon re-enforces that the shopping lens is still
under development and testing, and that there will be an option to
easily disable it.

Charlene Tessier writes about problems around Ubuntu usage and
adoption, and criticism by existing users about recent changes to the
operating system, speculating that 99% of people don’t know what
Ubuntu is or what it is for. We want to reach all of these other
people, so Tessier thinks that a solution for the adoption problem is
to go out on the street and talk with people who haven’t used Ubuntu
yet to see what they like and prefer.

Stephane Graber introduces the python LXC API that makes it easy for
developers to work with the LXC library. The goal is to make it
accessible from other languages with some bindings. Graber also
discusses how the initial implementation of the API has been pushed to
the LXC staging branch on github and into the LXC package of Ubuntu
12.10.

http://www.stgraber.org/2012/09/28/introducing-the-python-lxc-api/

=== Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments 0.3 Released! ===

Jono Bacon announces the release of Ubuntu Accomplishments 0.3. This
update focuses on bringing improvements in quality. Notable new
features are: an improved My Trophies section, new filters, and social
media integration. There has also been a lot of work during this
version cycle in creating a web gallery that will, in the future,
allow trophies to be viewed or shared online.

Barneedhar reports on the generally favorable feedback for Ask Ubuntu
from an interview with Marco Ceppi, one of the community moderators,
by Mark Johnson for OSS Watch. He also shares a note on the updated
list of the top five contributors in September, the hottest questions
of the month, and more.

Maia Grotepass shares details about her work on the Free Particle
Digital art exhibition, and highlights Anne Roquigny’s portion of a
webjay performance with 6 other artists. Grotepass writes “in previous
collaborations I find myself having to span multiple operating systems
each with their own idiosyncrasies. This time, to my delight, Anne’s
entire system runs on ubuntu.”

=== Steam for Linux entering private beta in October for just 1,000 users ===

A private beta will be available in October for 1,000 users to test
Steam for Linux. The initial beta will include a test of the service
itself as well as one game and will work on computers running Ubuntu
12.04 and above.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/27/steam-linux-beta/

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== Intel Atom D525: Ubuntu 10.10 To 12.10 ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix brings us “benchmarks of ALUSA’s Intel
Atom Desktop that packs an Intel Atom D525 processor with Intel GMA
3150 graphics, 2GB of RAM, and a 500GB SATA disk. The benchmarks are
from Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, and an Ubuntu 12.10 development
snapshot to see how the performance has evolved since this Intel Atom
CPU was introduced two years ago.”

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! leads us through the process that the
Ubuntu shopping lens went through to get an “off switch” for the
results; from the first remarks from a Unity developer, to code and
appearance of this and other elements of the Dash, Lenses, and Scopes.

Dave Delony of Make Tech Easier calls musicians, audio engineers, and
other “creative” people to use Ubuntu Studio, a “customized Ubuntu
version geared for creative work: audio, video and graphics” and
reviews some of the key applications.

Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes about Ubuntu’s Sync Menu, and the
possibilities with Ubuntu One and indicators. Sneddon writes:
“Designed to be a one-stop drop-down menu for both mounting the status
of, and controlling, downloads, the Sync Menu has the potential to
make life that little bit easier.”

Veronica Henry of ReadWriteWeb shares an interview with Ubuntu Women,
Elizabeth Krumbach, and Cheri Francis. Henry points out that Ubuntu
Women is a “non political organization, so you’ll find no mentions of
feminism but rather a safe place where women, curious about the Ubuntu
developer community can come and ask questions without fear of
intimidation or condescension.” Henry also highlights crucial parts of
the Ubuntu Women organization such as mentoring, contributions, and
education.

Henry points out that, as in any part of the Ubuntu project, people
are welcome to join Ubuntu Women as well. They can do that by
“contacting anyone on the leadership team
(wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Contacts ) or check out the #ubuntu-women and
#ubuntu-women-project IRC channels.”

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/09/meet-the-ubuntu-women.php

=== Ubuntu Server 12.10: What to Expect ===

Christoper Tozzi of The Var Guy brings us highlights of what we can
expect on the Ubuntu server side: “latest release of OpenStack known
as Folsom, cloud-init support for config drive v2, cloud images of
Ubuntu Server 12.10 will be available for the armhf architecture,
0.48.1 of Ceph the distributed data storage system, packages for
floodlight and mininet, Version 7 of the Apache Tomcat Java platform.”

=== Unity WebApps Available In The Ubuntu 12.10 Official Repositories ===

Andrew of WebUpd8 leads us through a Unity WebApps tour pointing out
possibilities such as “tight desktop integration for popular websites
like Gmail, Google Plus, Last.fm radio, Facebook, Google Docs and many
others.” Andrew also made a little tutorial about how to install
WebApps via the terminal.

John Gold of Network World brings us thoughts from different people in
the open source world regarding VMWare joining the OpenStack. Gold
specifically highlights the thoughts of Canonical’s cloud vice
president, Kyle McDonald: “This isn’t something new to us, this isn’t
something we don’t understand, this isn’t a community we’re going to
seek to control of – we’ve already been in the OpenStack world, we’ve
already been developing a product.”

* Google’s Code-in Contest Is Ideal for Teens Interested In Open
Source – http://ostatic.com/blog/googles-code-in-contest-is-ideal-for-teens-interested-in-open-source
* French government to use PostgreSQL and LibreOffice in free
software adoption push -

Stephen Michael Kellat brings us news, among other things, about the
Amazon shopping experience under Ubuntu, and mass market needs. The
question is raised whether to be proactive in announcing a feature or
being reactive when somebody else says something about it. Most simply
put: Is anybody responsible for communicating to the non-developer
mass market about these sorts of features prior to their
incorporation?

Some of the news that Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and
Laura Cowen bring us in the sixteenth episode of Ubuntu Podcast from
the UK LoCo, are:

* Github went down but it’s back up again…
* Google might be evil…
* Rackspace are sued for patent infringement…
* Skycon – 6th-7th October – University of Limerick
* HackManchester – 27th-28th October – Museum of Science and Industry
as part of the Manchester Science Festival

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/09/26/s05e16-in-the-amazon-jungle/

== Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings ==

* Kernel Team – September 25, 2012

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_25_Sept_2012

* QA Team – September 26, 2012

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120926

* Desktop Team – September 25, 2012

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-09-25

* Security Team – September 24, 2012

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120924

== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at
fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on
different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical
support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No
contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It’s your chance to
get in on all the community fun associated with developing and
promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

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